Iraq Kills Its Athletes

Most countries adore their athletes.They are usually treated like stars or, heroes, or icons that are put on a pedal stool. Not the case in Iraq.
This is a picture of Iraq's National Soccer team.

They have yet to come home for fear of what will happen to them.

Athletes are no longer safe in their own country. In the past year numerous athletes and officials have been killed ,tortured, and/or kidnapped.

After an Olympic meeting 37 officials and athletes were kidnapped. Some are still missing to this day. Witnesses say they came and took them by the truck loads, and they believe the government was involved.

17 members of one of Iraq's Tae Kwon Do schools were killed and dumped into a mass grave on the side of the road.

13 members of a wresting team were gunned down and killed at their school.

Several soccer and volleyball officials and athletes have been murdered or kidnapped.

A suicide bomber attacked a sporting event killing and injuring several innocent people.

Iraq's sports officials have reached out to people like Condoleezza Rice for help , with no answer.

One Iraqi who was interviewed said, that the government doesn't want anything that shows signs of stability or unity, because that means that the Americans had won the war.He says the government is willing to sacrifice it's own people to keep the Americans from winning the war or settling things in their country, even though most Iraqi people approve of what the US is trying to help them do.

What I'm saying iz... You would think that sports would be the one thing that the Iraqi people could unite on, since sports has nothing to do with race or class or religion or politics. Sports is one thing that is universally agreeable, Iraq would be the ones to have a problem with it.